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Participants in the Eucor Library Meeting

Networking libraries

The libraries from the Eucor region met once again on September 19, 2018 at the University of Freiburg. Colleagues from the Eucor university libraries in Basel, Freiburg, Haute-Alsace, Karlsruhe and Strasbourg as well as the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe and the Bibliothèque Nationale Universitaire (BNU) in Strasbourg reported on the work in their institutions and […]

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Ilustration European Student Card

An Easy-to-Use, Convenient Service Option for European Students – The New Student Card ESC

The Eucor universities are working on the application of the European Student Card (ESC). This tool is intended to allow use of the student card of the respective home university at any of the other universities. Whether it is to pay at the cafeteria, borrow books from the library, or open doors – the use […]

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Closing event for the SERIOR project

Closing ceremony of the SERIOR interregional project

Since 2016 the SERIOR Trinational Graduate Academy of the Upper Rhine has been working transnationally on the subject of risk management. On 12th September 2018 the closing ceremony symbolically took place on the Rhine on board the MS Karlsruhe. Project leaders and political representatives looked back and at the same time considered the future. Environmental […]

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Hans-Jochen Schiewer, Rector of the University of Freiburg, welcomes the new students of the German-French Law Master's programme.

Two new courses of study at the European Campus

As of the 2018/2019 winter semester, the University of Freiburg and the University of Strasbourg are launching two courses of study that will provide a dual university degree including the bachelor’s degree in “German studies from a Franco-German perspective” and a master’s degree “Franco-German law”. German language, literature, culture and history – the new degree […]

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Portrait Phillip Stöcks

Involvement with the Student Council

Phillip Stöcks prizes the opportunities that Eucor – The European Campus offers students, but sees a need for improvement. He is the president of the Student Council of Eucor – The European Campus, that represents the interests of the alltogether 115,000 students from the five universities. Pascal Lienhard spoke to Phillip Stöcks about the work […]

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Prof. Barbara Di Ventura

Flourish with Seed Money – an example from Biology

Freiburg biology professor Barbara Di Ventura is working with a colleague from the University of Strasbourg on a research project currently financed with Seed Money, a fund for Eucor universities. The team is developing light-sensitive antibody fragments known as nanobodies, and with their help is researching a protein in living cells. In the long term […]

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Several hands hold a young shoot in a pile of soil (Seed Money symbol image)

A sixth round of Seed Money funding

+++ APPLY BY SEPTEMBER 29 (5pm) +++ A sixth round of Seed Money funding is starting: both renowned professors and researchers from the member universities of Eucor – The European Campus can apply. To benefit from this help, a project must offer an active partnership between the teachers and/or researchers of at least two Eucor […]

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Students from KIT, the University of Basel, and the University of Strasbourg

Trinational seminar “Autonomous Driving in the Border Triangle”

Students and researchers from the law faculties of the Universities of Basel and Strasbourg as well as engineers, computer scientists and lawyers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have been working together on technology, regulation and acceptance of autonomous driving on a cross-border and interdisciplinary basis. Participant Sophie Haesen looks back on the trinational […]

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Iwein scenes from the Malterer tapestry, illustration from the Eucor Seed Money project ‘Consolidation and internationalisation of medieval studies programmes in Strasbourg, Freiburg and Basel’

Towards a Rhenish centre of medieval studies

The “Mutualization and internationalisation of the training offer in medieval science in Strasbourg, Freiburg and Basel” project is based on an existing cooperation between the master of interdisciplinary medieval studies in Strasbourg and the Mittelalterzentrum in Freiburg. “I proposed to set up a project integrating Basel, which hosts many medieval researchers” said Isabel Iribarren, a […]

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Angela Merkel during her speech at the Charlemagne Prize award ceremony

Angela Merkel Applauds Eucor – The European Campus

Chancellor Angela Merkel acknowledged French President Emmanuel Macron’s idea of establishing European universities to create new incentives in Europe at the ceremony where he was awarded the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen on May 10, 2018. In her talk, she commended Eucor – The European Campus, which is an alliance of five Upper Rhine universities, […]

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